Stories by fanf2

Distributed consistency at scale: Spanner vs. Calvin (2017)

TLS: what can go wrong?

The semiconductor industry and economic growth theory

Before envelopes, people protected messages with letterlocking

Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest

Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Golang (2017)

Deliveroo's data shows cyclists are faster in cities than cars and motorbikes

Haskell type checker complaint 184 of 698

GitHub reaches 100M repositories

Profiling: the case of the missing milliseconds

Donut math: how donut.c works

On dealing with owning and borrowing in public interfaces in Rust

Brand TLD observatory

Interprocedural borrow conflicts in Rust

British underground utility colour codes explained

Julia: dynamism and performance reconciled by design [pdf]

Who called 1688 a “Glorious Revolution”? (2016)

Envoy proxy and gRPC-web: a fresh new alternative to REST

Deadlines, lies and videotape: The tale of a gRPC bug

Impact of Daylight Saving Time on the Clinical Laboratory